How to Use inbreeding in a Sentence

inbreeding

noun

• The rise of the feral hog has been a steady process with inbreeding of various breeds of swine.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
• The first picks had died, and all the familial inbreeding made the next choice complex.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
• Turns out both families are prone to such fits as the result of inbreeding.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 8 May 2022
• Because the gene pool is so small, white tigers are only produced through inbreeding, which can lead to health problems for the tigers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
• Of all the samples, only the man whose bones were laid to rest in the heart of Newgrange showed the genetic markers of extreme inbreeding.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2020
• This likely led to inbreeding, which would’ve caused even more problems.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
• That inbreeding has resulted in a species less able to adapt to the changing conditions.
  — David McKenzie and Brent Swails, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
• Sure, Smith and her colleagues could look for known symptoms of inbreeding in mountain lions, like kinked tails.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2 July 2018
• Today, the animals are alive but not well, due to years of isolation and inbreeding.
  — Justin Chang, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• White tigers, which are purposely bred for their coloration, are prone to a number of health issues due to inbreeding.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• The isolation can lead to inbreeding, which dilutes the cats’ gene pool and can lead to health and reproductive problems.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• Less habitat for the cats also has the potential to increase the likelihood of inbreeding.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
• The team was also just looking for the most extreme examples of human inbreeding.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• This inbreeding resulted in the birth of a tigress named Mohini—one of two white tigers in the litter of four produced by Mohan and his daughter.
  — Azzedine Downes, Scientific American, 22 June 2021
• But the genetics of Roopkund B, showing no sign of isolation or inbreeding, ruled this out, too.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• Breeding of bulldogs, which are known to have many health problems because of inbreeding and face shape, was recently banned in Norway.
  — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• The aim is to preserve the herd for the future by keeping it to a sustainable size and warding off the danger of inbreeding and territorial fighting.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2018
• The capture of the whales decades ago, as well as the geographic or social isolation of the animals, likely explains the inbreeding, the researchers said.
  — Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• But a termite colony is no more related than a human family (at least until the inbreeding starts).
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Des Esseintes is a dandy and aesthete, sickly from too much inbreeding, the last of his line, with strange and corrupting tastes, a love of apparel, jewellery, scents, rare books and fine bindings.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• By just releasing the pups, there's a lag time for potential inbreeding and a lower likelihood of survival.
  — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 23 June 2019
• His decline demonstrates one problem with all this inbreeding.
  — Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
• Some of the westside cats are showing dangerous signs of inbreeding, such as kinked tails and other genetic problems.
  — sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
• But rather than slowing down, the pace of inbreeding has accelerated.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• This arrangement can lead to inbreeding, but female dwarf mongooses have found a simple yet clever way around this problem: look for mates in nearby groups.
  — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
• Some worried that it would be used to study taboo or stigmatizing topics, such as inbreeding and alcoholism.
  — Oscar Schwartz, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• More allegations came out claiming many of his animals were deformed due to inbreeding and not giving the moms enough healthy food while pregnant.
  — Gina Vaynshteyn, refinery29.com, 24 Mar. 2020
• But another threat to the kakapo is a lack of genetic diversity, because of low numbers and inbreeding.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Despite the inbreeding, however, there was little in the way of genetic variants that are exclusive to a single breed.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2022
• But in recent years, a long-time study of wolves and moose interaction on the island has found that due to inbreeding and disease, the pack of wolves had dwindled to just two, with the moose population exploding.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024